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Qwen used human-feedback training to make its image AI follow directions better News
A new recipe applies the same reinforcement-learning approach that polished chatbots to an image generator, then merges separate skill models into one - improving how faithfully it follows prompts and edits.
Image generators can't plan. This one bolts on a brain that can. News
Qwen-Image-Agent wraps planning, reasoning, and memory around a text-to-image model so it can break a hard request into steps - and the local-AI crowd immediately asked whether it runs on a gaming GPU.
Anthropic says Alibaba ran the biggest 'copy Claude' campaign yet News
Anthropic told U.S. senators that Alibaba's Qwen team quietly milked Claude for its best skills. Alibaba says nothing back, and the whole fight may be as much about price as theft.
Alibaba's new models let AI agents practice in a world they imagine News
Qwen-AgentWorld trains a model to simulate the environment an agent acts in, then uses that simulation as a cheap, controllable place to learn -- reporting gains beyond training in the real thing.
AI Agents Are Learning to Build the Worlds They Train In News
Three new open research projects point the same way: instead of only learning what to do, agents are learning to simulate the environment itself, so they can practice in their own imagination.
Qwen3.6 (open weights) Tool
Alibaba's stable Qwen3.6 release: open-weight general chat and coding models you can self-host, the same family at the center of this week's open-vs-closed pricing debate.
Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro Tool
Alibaba's latest open image-generation model in the Qwen family, downloadable and runnable locally, part of a broad open-weight release wave that also refreshed the Qwen3.6 chat models.